This causes their red blood cells to become rigid, sticky, and shaped like sickles or crescent moons ... Learn about sickle cell anemia in African Americans. Because sickle cell disease is ...

It’s been a year since the gene-editing treatment Casgevy was approved for sickle cell disease and a related blood disorder.

This technology has even been used to spot the crescent-shaped red blood cells that give sickle cell anemia its name. Stephen ...

Notably, sickle cell anemia was the first genetic disease to ... elongated, sickle-shaped and crescent-shaped forms" 1. Complicating a diagnosis were additional problems: cardiac enlargement ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

In sickle cell disease, red blood cells become crescent- or “sickle”-shaped ... The cost of managing sickle cell anemia has been a significant burden. “Hydroxyurea costs Sh50 per tablet ...